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People With Disabilities Impetus For New Teaching Hotel
Construction is set to begin on a first-of-its-kind hotel where teaching and employing people with disabilities will be just as important as accommodating overnight guests. At least 20 percent of workers at the 150-room Courtyard by Marriott being built in Muncie,…
How Marital Status Affects Retirement Benefits
Married couples are eligible for a variety of retirement benefits that single people are not. A recent Government Accountability Office report examined how declining marriage rates affect how prepared couples and singles are for retirement. Here’s a look at how…
Tester introduces hospital bill: Aims to clarify rural area requirements
Montana’s senior senator has co-sponsored a bill that supporters say would end a confusing requirement for rural hospitals. Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat, introduced the Critical Access Hospital Relief Act with co-sponsor, Kansas Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, late in February. The…
How to Keep Lengthening Life Expectancies from Broadening our Budget Deficit?
Social security and Medicare are often treated collectively as something of a third rail in politics (though there is admittedly no shortage of those). However, as American life expectancy has increased and as Baby Boomers are now eligible for early…
Hanged for a Lamb
President Obama’s new budget includes a very mild provision to increase tax benefits for low- and moderate-income working people without children. The provision, the Earned Income Tax Credit, is already available to workers with children. Obama proposes to pay for…
Taxing retirement benefits controversial, but viewed by some as matter of fairness
When the Civic Federation last week released its five-year budget road map for Illinois, it raised a few eyebrows. Among the various recommendations made by the group for the state to pay off its bills and gradually reduce its income tax…
Fire Safety For People With Disabilities
More than 43 million Americans have a disability. Those numbers are constantly changing; at any point, able-bodied people can become part of this group, for a short time or a long time. People with disabilities tend to be fiercely independent, but…
Gov. Rick Scott says Medicare rate cuts will affect seniors’ ability to keep their doctor, hospital and prevention services
Seniors (particularly voters), listen up: Medicare cuts have arrived — and the way Gov. Rick Scott tells it, they’re going to lead to some sickening results. In an online ad created by Scott’s campaign, he speaks in a testimonial style to the “wonderful…
New York Daily News Survey says Millennials less attached to social constructs
A new report shows that millennials are veering away from the traditional paths and affiliations of previous generations. The survey, conducted by Pew Research Center, found that millennials — the generation ranging from ages 18 to 33 — are increasingly unattached…
Service dog owners still hounded despite change in law
NASHVILLE — Tennessee law changed last year to make travel with service dogs easier — but if a law changes and few people know, has it really changed? The new law aims to protect people with disabilities from having to show documentation…